This outstanding visual and musical history traces the fortunes of the Fender Musical Instrument Company—in particular, their world-class electric guitars—year by year, from 1950 to 2009. Each two-page spread covers a particular year with company highlights, a short essay, and news headlines. But the real star of the year is always a particular Fender instrument, featured in a large photo straddling both pages, surrounded by various captioned images of other instruments, stage performances, musicians, album covers, advertisements, or catalog pages.